From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: beacon Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:36:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444945027 2519 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 21:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Howard Melman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 23:37:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmqCt-0000MJ-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:37:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmqCt-00072J-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46465) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmqCF-0006wn-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmqCE-0005VO-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::22d]:34492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmqCD-0005VI-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: by lbbwb3 with SMTP id wb3so23843652lbb.1 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:36:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=T4OF90X/NSZGgFaqI4dAkUWER7iTbsOH0cwSXNC766k=; b=aCp+N0xiNA6odfcXnFNzzQLT/oOO5wgBNlnbgfJeokIZtcUVdRzGPVYbLDrXf3lo9S IPQ5qhLK55HKBNG3m3XZ8MhS89NVSh856jhVT4TwfEh1OvUu1v1YjN7S7xvcsPC+XD7i b4jZMjPOJM9NgyNSrfYAHim5YWYLnag2voz757jQI3P08jrOM2SgmMEuGsMSAjSKDK/L 5p+XDK2YPzdmjAxzhVghIlVU50s9v9rdEoRcStPOIQyb+U1Gv+4a25ZHYv5b/hhxFnTl 8//ahXFLAgFeNjtNWdR6oqcstjNukj2avfh7wkkloIZLHgLdOJ10V5PVRHKEApI6wSYf aJGA== X-Received: by 10.112.199.137 with SMTP id jk9mr6074047lbc.86.1444944981248; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.22.197 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:36:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2BoYftVlW1tX5X-u3Ui9nZqxsK8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::22d X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191690 Archived-At: 2015-10-15 19:31 GMT+01:00 Howard Melman : > > Artur Malabarba writes: > >> Whenever the window scrolls or the buffer changes a light will shine on >> top of your cursor so you know where it is. >> >> That=E2=80=99s it. See this gif for example: >> https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon/raw/master/example-beacon.gif > > I like it. Though I reversed the list of colors that > beacon--color-range returned and prefer it. At least on my > light-colored background, the effect is that the "shine" > moves towards the cursor, leaving my eye at the cursor. Allowing other beacon types is definitely something I want. Besides just reversing it, I could see using a cross-hair shape or a circle.